Income support recipients still have the highest annual price rise (Australia, Sept qtr 2025).

Big growth in Australian average incomes up until 2009 (+small increase in inequality). Flat thereafter. Note, the latest observation for Australia would be 2017-18 or 2019-20, not 2024.

Big mistake. Being an insightful discussant is the best (and possibly easiest) way to impress your fellow academics.

And, of course: xkcd.com/552/

As an academic, I'm unsure whether my interests most align with those of the publishers of my papers, or with the LLMs. Making a small contribution to the corpus of human knowledge maintained by the LLMs doesn't seem such a bad outcome.

No, Office automatically inserts en dashes. Typesetters are the ones who typically introduce the em dashes.